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Engadget's recession antidote: win a Roku Netflix Player! {Engadget}
Feb 17th 2009 2:32PM I'm lucky so I will enter!
DirecTV Q4 aftermath: focusing on "middle market," receiving praises from everywhere {Engadget HD}
Feb 11th 2009 8:08PM I see some interesting comments here. As far as investing more in their installation services are concern, this year they invested millions in buying two of their largest national installers. DirecTV's CEO Chase Carey made a point in their conference call that they need to do a better job in customer service. It's pretty clear that they want to continue to take over more of their customer install operations.
As far as rain is concern, it's really a non-issue here in Virginia Beach. For me to lose my signal only very severe storms affect my viewing and it usually last less than 15 to 20 minutes if that and it's pretty rare.
As far as pricing is concerned every major DirecTV competitor already raised their rates Feb 1 according to major news sources. At least Direct won't be raising their rates until March 4th. LOL
Some of you say that you want to leave DirecTV. Well if you do, you are going to be one of the very, very few as DirecTV's churn rate(customers leaving) was at a 9 year low (1.47) in Q4.
Samsung hedges its bets with UniPixel's TMOS display technology {Engadget HD}
Feb 5th 2009 9:16AM Drastically cutting manufacturing costs will lead to much lower prices for the comsumers.
UniPixel's TMOS(TM) display technology is targeted to leverage a subset of the current LCD manufacturing process, offering the potential of lowering the bill of materials manufacturing costs by as much as 60% in some cases, while improving performance characteristics including lowering power consumption and increasing brightness over existing LCD and OLED flat panel display technologies.
Wal-Mart gets dirt cheap on digital-to-analog TV converters {Engadget HD}
Feb 11th 2008 1:27PM "EchoStar, the parent company of Dish Network, announced that it will sell a digital TV converter box for $39.99. The company said its TR-40 converter box will be available in limited quantities in March and unlimited quantities in June."
